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Monday, 24 June 2013

Once More Into The Breach!

I swore I'd never go back to television! But let's face it I was lying through my teeth.

Ben Aaronovitch(tm) is proud to announce that the Rivers of London series has been optioned by Feel Films.

Feel Films is run by Nick Hirschkorn and is currently producing Joanathan Strange & Mr Norrell for the BBC. Our aim is to produce a TV series that will blow the audiances's socks off and out via their earholes.

This is of course just the beginning of the process and there will be many many...many meetings and proposal documents and ideas being run up flagpoles etc but I'm hopeful we can not just get it done but get it done well.

Oh, wonderful! Is it also possible that you might get to write an episode or two?

I forget whether I thanked you for giving Mum a shout out in MOS. There were plans to develop a series on her life many years ago which were dropped due to 'Our Friends in the North' coming out (which included fictionalised portrayals of some of the same events, with McDowell playing Dad like an SF villain). That was subsequently handed over to Dan Films as a theatrical project funded by Film Four and, according to the producer and director, is /still/ being scripted. I fervently hope that the RoL project moves along with considerably greater haste.

I would love to see the books made into a series rather than a film. It portrays the London I know with the great urban fantasy. Just so long as they don't add bits that aren't in the books and get the casting right it will make great viewing.